The organiser of this fundraising, Activist Syed Ahsan Gilani is known to us. Please do your contributions and encourage your friends to join. Share this as a help to the girl in need of our support.
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An Ex Muslim Atheist girl from Pakistan is in Danger.
I am an activist and co-founder of Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan .
I know Alisha (pseudonym) from last 5 years. She is from Muslim family and left Islam few years ago. Her family want her to marry with a devout Muslim and 2 months ago stop her to go university. she contacted me few weeks ago and ask for urgent help. I arranged a shelter for her with the help of few friends, but that is not a permanent solution as living in Pakistan, being an atheist in not safe for her. She can be easily approached by Islamists or her own family if she would stay anymore in Pakistan. Once she caught up, she will be killed by her family or there are highly chances it will end up to prison as the Blasphemy law of Pakistan accuses people who are atheist and non-believer.
Consequently, we are thinking to get her out from Pakistan where she could freely exercise her fundamental rights including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and in particular freedom of conscience. We are figuring out the ways to get her out from Pakistan and the study visa of EU Country is the most feasible option.
She will travel to a nearest middle east country until the process of study visa will be done.
I hereby duly request you all to help her and share this page with your friends.
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CEMB is a support service for individuals who have left Islam (otherwise known as apostates and ex-Muslims). We also campaign against blasphemy and apostasy laws, rather we campaign for secularism and universal human rights.
A 2017 report by U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) found that Blasphemy laws were found in 71 countries from all regions of the world. However, even today the only countries in the world to punish blasphemy with a death sentence are Islamic countries. Furthermore, their report found that a majority of laws in countries that have blasphemy laws do not fully respect international standards of freedom of opinion and expression.
In 2018, World Alas reported that 23 Muslim majority countries still have apostasy laws, furthermore, 13 of those 13 countries have a death penalty for leaving Islam.
Leaving, criticising or even questioning Islam is a dangerous business indeed. We at CEMB support those brave individuals that dare to do as such.
In the last two years, CEMB's caseload has doubled from supporting 300 ex-Muslims a month to 600 a month. CEMB supports individuals from over 70 countries around the world.
Becoming an ex Muslim can have the following consequences:
- Death
- Imprisonment (this could be in a state prison, but could also be families imprisoning Ex Muslims within their homes).
- Mob Lynching
- Forced Marriage
- Honour based abuse/domestic abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Financial abuse
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Honour killings
- Corrective rapes
- Coercive control
- Mental health issues
- Self-harm
- Suicidal thoughts/feelings/attempts, in some cases successful suicides
- Disownment/ostracization
In order to escape the risk of the above list, many ex Muslims leave home, some fleeing oppressive countries, others fleeing others fleeing oppressive families.
Leaving Islam for many results in the loss of everything and everyone that is familiar. In some cases, the families are the very ones to forcefully remove their loved ones from their homes and lives, leaving them with nothing.
This is where CEMB steps in to offer them to help and support them. In many cases that has also meant providing emergency accommodation in hotels for those that have been forced out of their families and communities, however this is not a sustainable long term solution, so we have decided to start fundraising for a dedicated refuge that would not only provide emergency housing, but would provide hands on support for the Ex Muslims we house.
We need to raise £300,000 in order to secure a property for this project, please help us with this goal.
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In the last 12 months, the majority of requests for help come from the following ten countries - in order of requests. It comes as no surprise as most of these countries have the strictest and harshest 'blasphemy' and 'apostasy' laws.
We want to respond to all these requests. Please help us to make it possible by donating to our #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk campaign:
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